JasonFunes

Assistant, Office of External Affairs

Assistant at Office of External Affairs

Jason Funes is working as an assistant in the Office of External Affairs at the Department of the Interior, which “strengthens relationships between state and local partners and external stakeholders with the Office of the Secretary” and “serves as liaison for governmental and non-governmental partners in communicating with Departmental offices and the Bureaus.”

Raised in Sarasota, Florida and a graduate of the University of South Florida, Jason Funes has worked as an emergency room EMT, as “a teaching assistant for Hispanic migrant workers,” and in medical sales. Originally a volunteer for Donald Trump’s campaign, he was later hired by the campaign “in the Florida office.”

Jason Funes, whose family is from El Salvador, has said that he would “hate to see the socialist policies that plague our native lands in Central and South America come and poison our American nation.”